SOUTH PORT ARTHUR CO

LINTON-PIGGOREET ROAD PIGGOREET, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE

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    SOUTH PORT ARTHUR CO - History

    Contextual History:History of Place:
    Heritage Inventory History of Site:
    26/08/1905: this and two other companies have been floated (Reference: Grenville Standard p.1 c.6)
    23/06/1906: company may be reformed with an extended lease; which will include part of the old Grand Trunk mine, where a large lode paying 6dwt to 2.5ozs per ton has never developed because of the excess water (Reference: Grenville Standard p.1 c.7)
    30/06/1906: winding plant for this mine is being removed from the North Jubilee (Reference: Grenville Standard p.1 c.7)
    18/06/1906: winding plant will be formally started on Tuesday (Reference: Grenville Standard p.6 c.5)
    02/03/1906: calling tenders for the supply of a large boiler to take better advantage of the steam winch (Reference: Grenville Standard p.6 c.1)
    09/03/1906: purchased a large Cornish flue boiler to replace the vertical one now in use (Reference: Grenville Standard p.6 c.1)
    20/04/1907: the large boiler completed and allows continuous baling (Reference: Grenville Standard p.6 c.4)

    Heritage Inventory Description

    SOUTH PORT ARTHUR CO - Heritage Inventory Description

    A small quartz reef mining site that is on the southern extension of the line of reef that was being worked at the Port Arthur mine. The features at this site include a depression where the shaft was located, a relatively undisturbed mullock heap 25m by10m by 2m high which runs south from the shaft, the brick and stone base of a chimney 2m by 2m, a rivetted iron chimney 14.71m by 1.2m is lying near the base, and two flattened areas containing many basalt rocks located south west of the chimney base. These flattened areas are joined, and are 12m by 3m and 10m by 3m respectively./nThe chimney and base are interesting, and the proximity and relationship of this site to the other mines in and around Devil's Kitchen is also an important feature of this site. /nThere are no features at this site associated with any processing of ore and the size of the site suggests that is never found anything substantial. There are no signs of any winding or pumping machinery.

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    Heritage Inventory Site Features: Rivetted iron chimney is in two sections, 6.17m and 8.54m long respectively.

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